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John Edward Capps is Of Counsel at ESI. John Edward Capps's net worth is not public. Form 4 filings only show shares in the companies where this person is an insider; those holdings are worth an estimated $24.1M at current prices.
Our model assigns John Edward Capps a below-average insider score of 35/100, based on 3 past trades. Over a 12-month horizon, none of those trades were profitable, with an average 12-month return of -15.2%.
Net of sales, the ESI filings show accumulation of 171,105 shares.
John Edward Capps has 25 Form 4 filings on record from February 2017 to February 2026, all as Of Counsel at Element Solutions (ESI), 2017–2026.
The 90 reported transactions were 29 option exercises, 23 option or other derivative awards, 21 tax withholdings and 13 open-market purchases, plus smaller numbers of other types.
Counted by filing, the open-market trades come to 8 purchases worth about $2.8M and 2 sales worth about $2.4M.
The largest open-market purchase was 65,000 shares of ESI at an average $10.86 on November 12, 2018, about $706K.
The largest open-market sale was 77,674 shares of ESI at an average $26.77 on September 18, 2025, about $2.1M. Twelve months later ESI was up 21%.
Neither of the two sales since April 2023 was marked as made under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.
| Date | Ticker | Role | Type | Shares | Price | Value | Chg% | 3M | 12M | SEC |
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| Sep 18, 2025 | ESI Element Solutions Inc | EVP, General Counsel & Sec. | Sale+OE | 77,674 | $26.77 | $2,079,332.98 | -11.3% | -5.9% | +21.3% | |
| Feb 15, 2024 | ESI Element Solutions Inc | EVP, General Counsel & Sec. | Sale+OE | 15,554 | $23.20 | $360,852.80 | -2.8% | -0.3% | +9.6% | |
| Aug 14, 2019 | ESI Element Solutions Inc | EVP, General Counsel & Sec. | Buy | 10,000 | $9.00 | $90,000.00 | +3.4% | - | - | |
| Dec 20, 2018 | ESI Element Solutions Inc | EVP, General Counsel & Sec. | Buy | 50,000 | $10.00 | $500,000.00 | +24.5% | - | - | |
| Dec 18, 2018 | ESI Element Solutions Inc | EVP, General Counsel & Sec. | Buy | 50,000 | $10.67 | $533,400.00 | +32.4% | - | - | |
| Nov 14, 2018 | ESI Element Solutions Inc | EVP, General Counsel & Sec. | Buy | 20,000 | $10.57 | $211,400.00 | +14.9% | - | - | |
| Nov 12, 2018 | ESI Element Solutions Inc | EVP, General Counsel & Sec. | Buy | 65,000 | $10.86 | $705,750.00 | +93.8% | - | - | |
| Nov 5, 2018 | ESI Element Solutions Inc | EVP, General Counsel & Sec. | Buy | 46,000 | $10.93 | $502,550.00 | +197.1% | - | - | |
| Aug 15, 2018 | ESI Element Solutions Inc | EVP, General Counsel & Sec. | Buy | 20,833 | $12.05 | $251,037.65 | +833.3% | - | - | |
| Aug 25, 2017 | ESI Element Solutions Inc | EVP, General Counsel & Sec. | Buy | 2,500 | $10.77 | $26,925.00 | New | - | - |